One thing the
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy gets right:
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Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
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And in all that bigness, even planets are small. Media portrayals of densely crowded asteroid fields are total fiction, portrayed like that for dramatic purposes. (Well, about the only place you'd find stuff like that would be in the debris disc of a forming solar system. Not in a mature system.)
Please, give us some specifics about what makes you doubt.
Fred